“I thank my God for the power he has given me,” she stated.
“I’ll say this course just isn’t dangerous, however it’s not straightforward” particularly the end.
She is the primary runner to win each Olympic gold and the New York Metropolis Marathon.
Viola Cheptoo, additionally from Kenya, was simply seconds behind Jepchirchir.
Ethiopia’s Ababel Yeshaneh took third within the girls’s race, ending in 2 hours, 22 minutes and 52 seconds.
Molly Seidel completed as the highest American lady, taking fourth in 2 hours, 24 minutes and 42 seconds. Seidel received bronze within the girls’s marathon on the Tokyo Olympics.
The victory was Korir’s fifth in a marathon, after Vienna Metropolis in 2017, Cape City in 2018, Houston in 2019 and Ottawa the identical yr.
Mohamed El Aaraby of Morocco got here in second within the males’s race, ending in 2 hours, 9 minutes and 6 seconds. He was adopted by Eyob Faniel of Italy, who got here in at 2 hours, 9 minutes and 52 seconds.
Elkanah Kibet completed as the highest American, taking fourth with a time of two hours, 11 minutes and 15 seconds.
About 30,000 individuals have been registered to participate in at present’s occasion, the fiftieth New York Marathon, which travels by means of town’s 5 boroughs: Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. The race begins on Staten Island and ends in Central Park.
The 2020 marathon was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
